The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (often shortened to TMNT or Ninja Turtles) are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjitsu and named after four Renaissance artists. From their home in the storm sewers of New York City, they battle petty criminals, evil overlords and alien invaders, all while remaining isolated from society-at-large.
The characters initially appeared in comic books before being licensed for toys, cartoons, video games, films, and other merchandise. During the peak of its popularity in the late 1980s through early 1990s, the franchise gained considerable worldwide success and fame.
Plot:
In a future where America is a war torn crime filled country gangs have taken over most of the cities across the United States. In what used to be a beautiful city called New York, two gangs fight for control, the Purple Dragons and the Foot Clan. Master Splinter (a mutated human that now is a life sized rat) sends his four adopted sons (Turtles turned into human like turtles trained in ninjitsu) to stop this turf war before it cost even more destruction then it already has. They also must protect April O’Neil, a news reporter who has done multiple stories on the Foot. With the help of April and their vigilante friend Casey Jones can they stop the Foot and the Purple Dragons before it’s too late? And what connection does the leader of the Foot have to the turtle’s existence?
Splinter and Turtles Origin:
1475
A race of alien beings called the Utrom were planning to attack earth. 4 shinobi or should I say ninjas with incredible power were tasked stopped them in a battle on a plane between our 2 dimensions. The four ninjas had to find scrolls with an ancient spell engraved on it. Only the chosen one of that scroll could read it. The ninjas found the scrolls and used their powers to defeat the Utrom in an epic battle. The Utrom swore they would return and so did the ancient prophecy. 4 ninjas would soon be tasked with stopping the Utrom’s return.
1994
Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki were best friends. They were a part of the foot clan. They had joined when they were young boys and have moved up in the ranks. They both fall in love with the daughter of the head of the foot clan. Her name is Tang Shen. Yoshi and Saki both try to get her, but in the end Yoshi succeeds. Oroku Saki is jealous, but finds a lover of his own. Saki and Yoshi are believed to be 2 of the ninjas talked about in the ancient prophecy. They train harder once they learn this.
1996
Hamato Yoshi has moved high up in the ranks of the foot clan while Oroku Saki has only been promoted once. He was skilled enough to beat Yoshi, but his anger held him back. A tournament is held by the foot clan between all members of the clan that want to participate. If you beat someone with a higher ranking then you then the winner trades rankings with the loser if the loser is highest ranked. If the loser is lower ranked then the winner can move him to whatever rank he chooses. Saki challenges Yoshi. Secretly drugs Yoshi before the match so he could easily win. Saki wins and trades rankings with Yoshi. Yoshi is sent on a mission by a high ranking foot clan member to find his scroll that he was chosen for. This really was a trick by Oroku Saki. He sends a task force of the best ninjas of the foot clan to kill Yoshi. Yoshi defeats the ninjas and returns to the foot clan base. He confronts Saki, but Saki denies it.
1998
Yoshi moves up to a rank higher than Oroku Saki’s within 3 years. Oroku Saki jealous burns down the home of Yoshi and his pregnant wife Tang Shen killing Tang Shen and the baby. Yoshi battles Saki and gives him a huge scar across his eye. Oroku Saki is defeated in the battle, but Yoshi has mercy and spares Saki’s life. Hamato Yoshi leaves for New York City. He gets a job as a martial arts instructor and leaves behind his foot clan past as Hansamu Iwa.
2008
America’s biggest cities had been taken over by powerful organizations gangs. NYC is still being fought for between the Foot Clan and the Purple Dragons. The place Iwa works for closes down and he is without a job. After 3 months without rent his land lord kicks him out. He is now homeless. Only thing he owns are some clothes and 4 turtles he named after famous renaissance artist, Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo.
While trying his best to fall asleep in an alleyway in New York when he hears cries for help. He runs around the corner and into another alley to find two guys mugging a woman. Iwa uses his ninjitsu skills to stop the muggers. One mugger runs off with the woman’s wallet into the sewers. The mugger leads through tunnels until they finally get to a huge bunker that was the hideout of the purple dragons until they moved to a bigger spot. The bunker had flowing sewage water running through a ravine that went through the middle of the bunker. Iwa kicks the muggers butt and takes the wallet. The mugger charges for Iwa. Iwa moves out of the way and the mugger goes tumbling over into the water flowing down the ravine to a waterfall that’s high drop kills the mugger.
Iwa returns to the surface to find the woman that was being mugged gone. He returns to the alleyway he was sleeping in to find his turtles still sitting in their place. He takes the turtles to the huge bunker and sleeps there.
2017
Iwa has survived in the bunker for 9 years now. He still owns his 4 turtles. One night before he goes to bed, Iwa checks on his Turtles. They are gone! He runs out to the ravine to see that the water was a turquoise color and that the turtles had fallen in. Iwa jumps in the water to save them only to be bitten by a rat why’ll in the water. Iwa gets the turtles and returns to the bunker. Iwa wakes up the next morning to find that his four turtles were the size of 9 year old boys. Iwa was a 5’9” rat.
Iwa begins to teach the turtles, English. Japanese and ninjitsu. He tries to get them to say his name Hansamu Iwa. They can’t say that so he tries to get them to say Hamato Yoshi and they can’t. He gives up and punches a wooden table which gives him a splinter. He says “AH! Splinter.” The four turtles then begin to say Splinter repeatedly and they call him that.
About The Movie
The Tone
The movie should be very dark and gritty. It should be like the Batman Begins of the Ninja Turtles, but still have some sarcastic and witty humor. It should be rated a hard PG-13 and the Turtles shouldn’t be afraid to kill if necessary.
The Director
(Click the picture above after you’re done reading this paragraph). I think James Teigue would be great for this. He directed Ninja Assassin and V for Vendetta and also was assistant director for movies like the Matrix 1-3 and Speed Racer.
The Writer(s)
I think writers should either be Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman the duo behind Stark Trek 1 & 2, Fringe and Transformers 1-3. Or the writers should be the Wachowskis. They’re behind Ninja Assassin, the Matrix Trilogy, V for Vendetta and Cloud Atlas. Both of these duos have successfully brought comics and tv shows to the big screen. If not them then maybe even David Goyer. I think Kevin Eastman should supervise the writing to see if they get it right.
The Music
I think that the movie should use a variety of different music. The fan TMNT comic series TMNT Dawn of the Ninja has 3 songs written exclusively for that series. You can find them
here. I think they should use rock music and dark hip hop, with cinematic music also. The third one I could see in a scene where Casey Jones goes on a awesome criminal butt kicking rampage after April O’Neil breaks up with him.
Leo
I think Leonardo should be the serious guy who always wants to train and is uptight. He should also always put his brothers down when they mess up which might lead to a verbal/physical fight between him and Raph. He’d be motion captured by different people. Some for regular scenes and some for the martial arts
Raph
Raph should have a very sarcastic type of humor. He also should doubt his skills a lot, but if he said something like “I suck at this!” Leo would respond with “Yes you do!” I think Raph and Leo should be rivals and have to learn how to become a team. He’d be motion captured by different people. Some for regular scenes and some for the martial arts
Donnie
Donnie should be a smart, but not too nerdy. I think the 2012 TMNT show makes him too nerdy. He’s smart not a geek. I also think he should have more of the witty humor that you see in movies like The Dark Knight. He should be similar to the Andrew Garfield Spiderman. He’d be motion captured by different people. Some for regular scenes and some for the martial arts
Mikey
The biggest thing about Mikey that’s gone is his skater dude ways. Mikey is just the main source of comic relief in this movie, but he’s not the guy that goes everywhere with a skateboard and says dude every five seconds. He’d be motion captured by different people. Some for regular scenes and some for the martial arts
The rest of the characters I will talk about in the…
FANCAST!!!
Leonardo-Jensen Ackles
I think Jensen Ackles could play a leader well. I also think he has the right voice for Leo.
Others Considered:
Garret Hedlund
Raphael-Garret Hedlund
I think Garret Hedlund would make a perfect Raph. His voice suits Raph well.
Others Considered:
Jensen Ackles
Donatello-Joseph G. Levitt
I think JGL could play Donnie very well. He has the right tone for it and can switch between a serious darker tone of voice (TDKR, Looper) to a lighter yet still serious tone (Inception, Premium Rush). I’m not talking about the tone of movies; I’m talking about the deepness of his voice.
Others Considered:
None
Michelangelo-Ryan Reynolds
I know what you’re thinking. “Ryan Reynolds ruins every movie he’s in. He always is the same character in every movie. Alright compare these two movies.
Others Considered:
Donald Glover
Chris Pine
Splinter-Jackie Chan
I think Jackie Chan would be perfect as Splinter. He has shown that he could play the role of a Master very well and I think that he is the human Splinter…alright kidding about the human Splinter part, but I think he’d be the best Splinter there could be.
Others Considered:
George Takei
Liam Neeson
Casey Jones-Jared Padalecki
I think Jared Padalecki would make an awesome Casey Jones. He has the right look, voice and acting ability to portray this role.
Others Considered:
Garret Hedlund
Taylor Kitsch
April O’Neil-Emma Stone
Emma Stone can play a powerful female character in a movie. That’s why I chose her. She’s beautiful, talented and fits this role well
Others Considered:
None
Shredder-Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe is casted over and over again as Shredder, but that’s for a reason. He’d be an absolute PERFECT Shredder and he’d be the bad@$$ to the character that all the tv/film adaptions have been lacking (except TMNT 2003).
Others Considered:
None
Karai-Elodie Yung
Yung’s performance as Jinx was awesome in G.I Joe Retaliation. I went home after seeing the movie and started to work on this and then when it came to her character the first word that popped n my head was Jinx.
Others Considered:
Jamie Chung
Hun-Jason Statham
I think Jason Statham, would make a great Hun. Hun is a character that needs to be Awesome. He needs to be able to lead the Purple Dragons in a way that no leader is ever like, and that’s why Jason works. There has always been action Stars but Jason brings unique things to the table.
Others Considered:
None
Bebop and Rocksteady-Kevin Durand and Dwayne Johnson
I think Kevin Durand and Dwayne Johnson would be perfect in these roles. In the movie they’d be the enforcers of the foot clan. I think Kevin Durand could capture Bebop’s character and so could the Rock ( I didn’t choose the Rock for Rocksteady because of his name…well that’s not the only reason)
Others Considered:
None
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